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by dave2000 11y ago
You compile with various compilers and you decompile them with different decompilers. This is trivial today. Randomness hardware? There are already perfectly good PRNG routines available as used by currently available strong encryption. I
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by dave2000 11y ago
The problem with WhatsApp is that IT is not open source, so you only have facebook's say-so that they're using the signal code, and you have to have faith that they've implemented it securely, and you have to trust that, as a
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by dave2000 11y ago
Yeah, it's all old news. I regularly use several different compilers so that's not such the shock you suspect it might be. Also, for your paranoia to be really effective you must also assume the disassemblers must also be in on t
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by dave2000 11y ago
I block javascript. I whitelist very few sites. Ads - like sites themselves - need to work without javascript. Then we can all get along. Running random, unsigned, untested, unwanted code from strangers on my own computer doesn't re
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by dave2000 11y ago
"The open source community has a long way to go if it's going to clearly demonstrate that it's model is advantageous" How is it less safe than not having the source, though? Absent the source, how can you trust that the
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by dave2000 11y ago
If you have the source then you can see what it does. If you only have the binary you have no idea what it does. You can observe what it does today, but what use is that if tomorrow it receives a short message from Facebook which tells it t
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They'll know you visited the site before? Why would I want to lose functionality to mitigate against that?
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by dave2000 11y ago
I actually emailed Amazon asking for other couriers to be an option as I hate everything about royal mail. They "lose" loads of mail, they lie by posting "you weren't in" cards when I'm working from home all da
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by dave2000 11y ago
What's wrong with just using a makefile?
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We use gradle at work with c++ projects. It's hilarious how slow it is. Why do people use it?
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Sure, but then you create another fake account. In any event, my original suggestion was for people who simply wanted to silently join groups to read info, and/or avoid annoying login requests.
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Satie had some good instructions: "In the morning on an empty stomach" "Hypocritically" "With a lot of difficulty" “With conviction and a rigorous sadness” “With a healthy superiority” “Don’t eat too much” “Sha
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by dave2000 11y ago
They would never know. They don't let you use it if you're under 13; there are probably tens of millions of children using it.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Why don't you just create an account for this sort of thing. No baby pictures, no sharing your holiday photos, no commenting on friends/families/colleagues posts. Just accessing groups/sites who use it because it's
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by dave2000 11y ago
Despite all the recent ai hype it still sucks whenever I use it. All my photo categories have wrong entries in them.
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Or this, literally from this week: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
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In the UK you can get into trouble "publishing" a photo of just about everything
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One thing that's odd about this is that it's phone only, so they need your phone number. It would be a million times better if it were an android app you could sideload onto any device and use anonymously; exchanging your contact
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by dave2000 11y ago
Isn't the contact list how whatsapp knows how to encrypt messages and who to send them too?
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by dave2000 11y ago
This is presumably why Facebook bought it in the first place, though. They don't need to see anyone's message content for this. They get all the info they need the first time you use it; confirming phone number 123-456-7890 belo
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by dave2000 11y ago
No, you said it is safe to assume they can't read your messages, which is the exact opposite to what Snowden said. What you personally think is true, likely etc is irrelevant. Facebook could be compelled to release private keys/da
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by dave2000 11y ago
They get your phone number from WhatsApp which they can then use to connect customer surveys you've done in the last, which have phone numbers, names, email addresses. Even absent some of this info they can often discover who you are.
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They'll monetize Facebook with the phone numbers they get from WhatsApp users.
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by dave2000 11y ago
Would it be possible for WhatsApp to be compelled to provide both parties' private keys/state representing same, and any other data resorted ml required, such that messages could be captured and decoded, spoofed etc?
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by dave2000 11y ago
It's a good idea if you want to catch drug mules, but a bad idea if you want a fair, free society.
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On the other hand, it would appear to be a great way of persisting information you don't want removed.
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by dave2000 11y ago
If you have £40 or so, and a few evenings free, get the C++11 version of the Stroustrup programming language book and see what's changed. Modern C++ looks entirely different to older C++. Templates still a bit scary, so learn them or
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by dave2000 11y ago
It's funny isn't it. Search engines are now better but return less useful results. As a programmer I know exactly what I'm looking for and I'm telling you that in my search terms. Also, as a programmer I'm not just
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Homage, though, requires some background knowledge of the war, and of the history leading up to the war. Whereas anyone can pick up 1984.
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"This is going to sound heretical, but I think that—particularly in the theatre—a lot of Shakespeare is too long. I think Act 4 in a lot of Shakespeare plays is a bit of a bum-number, and not much happens. I like to see Shakespeare int

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